Get Anti-CRT #FascismTourists to agree with these Paulo Freire quotes, and then tell them who he is (a radical Brazilian educator who pretty much advocated for revolution in and through the schools), a thread
"There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom."
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"If the great popular masses are without a more critical understanding of how society functions, it is not because they are naturally incapable of it—to my view—but on account of the precarious conditions in which they live and survive, where they are “forbidden to know.”"
-PoH
-PoH
"To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie."
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world."
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people–they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress."
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation."
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.”
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence.”
“No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.”
“If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed”
“No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption."
-PotO
-PotO
“To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.”
“One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people."
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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